Good News Translation
Down from the mountains of the north came the Assyrians, with their tens of thousands of soldiers. Their troops blocked the rivers in the valleys; their cavalry covered the mountains.

New Revised Standard Version
He boasted that he would burn up my territory, and kill my young men with the sword, and dash my infants to the ground, and seize my children as booty, and take my virgins as spoil.

Contemporary English Version
The Assyrians marched down from the mountains in the north. Thousands of soldiers blocked the rivers and streams; cavalry troops covered the mountain like a blanket.

New American Bible
He threatened to burn my territory, put my youths to the sword, Dash my infants to the ground, seize my children as plunder. And carry off my virgins as spoil.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He hath set his camp in the midst of his people, to deliver us from the hand of all our enemies.

He hath set his camp in the midst of his people, to deliver us from the hand of all our enemies.

Judith 16:2
Begin ye to the Lord with timbrels, sing ye to the Lord with cymbals, tune unto him a new psalm, extol and call upon his name.

Judith 16:3
The Lord putteth an end to wars, the Lord is his name.

Judith 16:5
The Assyrian came out of the mountains from the north in the multitude of his strength: his multitude stopped up the torrents, and their horses covered the valleys.

Judith 16:6
He bragged that he would set my borders on fire, and kill my young men with the sword, to make my infants a prey, and my virgins captives.